Receipt scanners, recommendations?

jeffrey black beastmaster126 at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 21 18:09:10 EST 2017


On 12/21/2017 3:05 PM, George Riner wrote:
> Is your question regarding a general purpose scanner?
>
> Or is your point about a application/tool that will process a scanned image of a receipt and create a ready-to-import file of accounts, descriptions, memos, and amounts - with splits?
>
> : George
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> On December 21, 2017 11:56:54 AM PST, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 21, 2017, at 11:42 AM, jeffrey black
>> <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am using GnuCash (Windoze version) to track multiple sets of books.
>>> My personal, my farm, my wife's business, and for another family
>> members
>>> personal and business.  Needless to say I am buried up to my ears in
>>> receipts and would like to go paperless by storing the images in
>>> GnuCash.  My flatbed scanner works but; is not a reasonable option.
>>>
>>> Right now, my budget would have to be a maximum of about $400 USD.  I
>>> need to scan everything from 2 inch wide thermal receipts up to to
>> full
>>> size 8 1/2 X 11  inch receipts.
>>>
>>> As soon as I can replace several legacy apps I intend to ditch
>> Windoze
>>> and move everything over to Unix (probably Ubuntu), so compatibility
>>> would be an issue.
>>>
>>> I would like to hear your recommendations.
>>
>> I've been very pleased with my Fujitsu ScanSnap. They publish a linux
>> driver, see
>> http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/sp/software/ubuntu.html.
>> I use mine with a Mac so I can't vouch for that part.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
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The main purpose is to just scan the receipts so I can toss the paper in 
the shredder.

IF there is an application/tool that is capable of creating a 
ready-to-import file that would be a huge bonus.  A large portion of 
these receipts have multiple splits, which I assume would still be done 
manually in GnuCash.  The conversion program(s) would also have reside 
strictly on my computers, no internet processing or fees.

--JEffrey Black M.B.A.



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